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[Page] 98 -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

PARISH OF REAY.

wall. Against the dividing wall, and in the front compartment on
the left of the entrance to the back, has been a small circular enclosure

[Plan inserted]
FIG. 20. - Hut Circle, Brawlbin (No. 357); Ground-plan.

measuring interiorly some 5' x 4'. The level of the back division is
rather higher than that of the front. The main wall in the interior
at highest has an elevation of nearly 4'. Against the external face
of the wall on the E. side of the entrance are indications of a small
outer construction.
O.S.M., CAITH., xvii. Visited, 9th August 1910.

358. Hut Circle, Shurrery. - On the E. side of the road, some 200
yards N. of the N. end of Loch Shurrery, is a circular construction
surrounded by a stone wall some 6' in thickness. The entrance appears
to have been from the SE. The interior diameter is about 26'.
Opening out of the main enclosure towards the W. and NW. have
been small circular enclosures of indefinite diameter. The whole
structure is much overgrown.
O.S.M., CAITH., xvi. Visited, 11th August 1910.

SEPULCHRAL CONSTRUCTIONS.

359. Chambered Cairn, "Torr Beag," Brawlbin. - About 1 m. NW.
of Dorrery Lodge is a large cairn which has been broken into at no
distant date. The chamber is in part wrecked, but does not appear
to have been cleared out. The diameter over all is 52' and the
elevation about 8'.
To the N. and E. of the cairn lie several small circular stony
mounds with diameters of from 12' to 16' and elevations of 1 1/2'   to 2'.
O.S.M., CAITH., xvii. Visited, 9th August 1910.